CSS Zen Garden Turns 10 37
mlingojones writes "The CSS Zen Garden — an attempt to showcase the power of CSS, from ye olden days when most sites used tables for layout, when CSS2 was bleeding edge, when IE5 was the most popular web browser — turns 10 today. In celebration, the maintainer Dave Shea is reopening the project for submissions, with a focus on CSS3 and responsive design."
Re:The Zen Garden Should Go Away (Score:5, Insightful)
The 'zen' was that you could load a new .css file and have a completely different-looking web page with the same content. I was doing some web design about 8 years ago - badly, I was about 14 and working for my high school over the summer - and even though I didn't know what I was doing it was so obviously a better way to do things than the table-based layout of the existing website that I tried (and failed) to figure out how to do it myself.
Never could figure out web design, so I switched to programming.
Re:CSS hype (Score:2, Insightful)
Tada. Problem solved.
"Problem solved?" It's an inflexible library with a fixed number of columns and hardcoded pixel widths. Exactly the kind of horrible design that people normally make when they try to layout a grid using just CSS. CSS is very useful, but it's just the wrong tool for this situation. You can drive a nail by tying a rock to a screwdriver, but why would you?